alt Hacker NewsI'm with you, I wouldn't have expected this a year ago. While it's been awesome for the hacker ethos, I worry that it might be too much too quickly. Commercial software will push to online-only business models to protect their IP from decomplication. For legacy/retro software, this couldn't be better.
One angle I don't see anyone talking about (perhaps because I'm mistaken) is that this is terrible news for Nvidia. AMD also makes great hardware, but their software is often seen as holding them back. A successful open-source CUDA port/decomp could devastate the AI pecking order.
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Server components won't do. The model for protecting their IP will be streaming games. Maybe AI would be able to produce the game just from a video, but unless the video includes every single aspect of the game, that would be a lossy process.
I’d get decompiling whilst the tokens heavily subsidised. Adobe should be pretty scared.
> Commercial software will push to online-only business models to protect their IP from decomplication.
uhm.. My dude, AI can make entire apps from just a couple English sentences, it'll handle cloning an entire online-only app it can see (and sniff)
And frankly, who even feels sorry for Adobe, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Google etc?
They made trillions of dollars and looked down on their users for decades. Google is still anal about dark mode if you're not signed in. YouTube still hinders iOS's picture-in-picture feature. Facebook still doesn't have iPad-native versions of their apps. There's so much shit in apps with billions of users that hasn't been fixed for years.
Fuck them.
I don't think commercial software will survive something like this. There’s no reason to subscribe to any software when there are open-source alternatives for everything. The only way to make money with software in the future is by selling additional services that require computing power. For example, if Adobe and Microsoft were to make their software open source, they could still continue to make money through AI subscriptions. The software itself will no longer have any monetary value.